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Author: Katarzyna Magnuska

Katarzyna Magnuska, attorney-at-law, advises on individual and collective labour law and immigration law, with a particular focus on cross-border relocation of talent and managers (global mobility). She advises clients on employment-related aspects of restructuring of enterprises, in particular taking part in employment aspects of due diligence reviews. She advises on termination or change of employment conditions of key employees, collective redundancies, take-overs of employees, and protection of employers’ trade secrets and competitor-sensitive know-how (non-competition, confidentiality, and non-solicitation agreements). For many years she has advised clients on posting of employees and legalisation of stay and work of non-EU nationals and their families in Poland.
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Posted on Categories contract termination, monitoring

A mystery shopper is not always useful in dismissing an employee

Entrepreneurs have long been aware that they can gain advantage over competitors, not only through the high quality of their products or services, but also by managing customer satisfaction. Whispered marketing is a powerful brand image building tool nowadays, and a firm’s success is increasingly dependent on the number of “likes”, stars, and other forms of customer recognition it has achieved on social media. One negative opinion, if repeated and passed on sufficiently frequently, can effectively undermine long-term marketing and PR achievements. This is why firms attach great importance to proper customer service.

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Posted on Categories mobbing

Uprooting mobbing at firms

A major change to the Labour Code entered into force on 7 September 2019, making it easier for employees to pursue claims for mobbing.

Under Art. 943 of the Polish Labour Code, an employee may seek compensation (zadośćuczynienie) for a detriment to the employee’s health caused by mobbing, as well as damages (odszkodowanie) in an amount no less than the minimum wage. But previously, as a condition for seeking damages, the employee had to terminate the employment on the grounds of mobbing.

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